Encouragement
I think all parents need encouragement to step off the faster-better-easier treadmill and put family dinners and good food first. So here’s my Sunday contribution: Go Meredith! It’s getting closer to...
View ArticleWhen toddlers go vegetarian
A friend of mine with toddler twins recently posed a unique parenting dilemma: What to do when your kids will eat their vegetables, but no meat? She reports they’ll eat eggs, even edamame and...
View ArticleSwimming in apples?
Here’s a great post by our friends over at Parents’ Place with all sorts of things to do with that big pile of apples on your counter —with recipes! Now if only we can make the weather...
View ArticleBack on track
We’re back on track after some technical glitches with the blogs. The post Back on track appeared first on ice cream is not for breakfast.
View ArticleSeinfeld v. Sneaky Chef
I wrote about Missy Chase Lapine not too long ago here and in the pages of The Journal News. She’s the Irvington mother of two who wrote the well-received cookbook called “The Sneaky Chef:...
View ArticleLunchbox makeover, slow food style
Imagine this: Your kids’ lunchboxes get a makeover from the guru of the slow-food movement, Alice Waters. If anyone can make a kid love locally grown, healthy food, it’s Waters. Journalist Patricia...
View ArticleSeinfeld, Sneaky smackdown
OK, not really, but Slate enters the Jessica Seinfeld and Missy Chase Lapine cookbook debate with this diss... The post Seinfeld, Sneaky smackdown appeared first on ice cream is not for breakfast.
View ArticleStarting solids
It’s hard to believe but my little guy is 6 months old; time to start experimenting with baby food. Our pediatrician had raised the topic at the 4 1/2-month check-up, but I held off on starting solids...
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What goes in must come out
As a first-time mom, it’s amazing to think how much time you can spend talking about not only what goes into your child’s mouth, but what happens at the other end. From the very first days when the...
View ArticlePuff piece
We took a giant step forward on the road to eating “real” solids last week when JD actually chewed the tiny piece of Gerber Graduates fruit Puff I gave him instead of choking on it. Since I had broken...
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